Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway has done a couple of rare things over the past year. One of them is under perform the broad markets and the other is, it looks to have formed a bearish “descending triangle pattern” over the past...

CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE Benjamin Graham is considered to be the father of value investing and Warren Buffett has been one of his students for decades. Graham shared ; “The investor’s chief problem-even his worst enemy– is likely to be himself!” How can one...

If one was to look around the world for a stock market that could impact the S&P 500 the most, which market would you look at? For a couple of years, the Power of the Pattern has been sharing with our members that the DAX Index (Germany) was very important. Below...

Since the market highs back in 2007, Banks in the states have little to brag about! The table below compares the Bank Index (BKX) with the S&P 500 since March of 2007. CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE When one compares the broad markets to the banks since 2007, the...

CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE The majority of stock markets around, are in a downtrend over the past 9-months. This morning we are taking a look at the Dow over the past few decades, actually 9 decades. The Dow has formed a rather uniform rising channel since the...

CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE The chart above looks at the Nikkei index over the past 50-years. Around 25-years ago, the Nikkei broke below the 21,000 level and it has struggled to get back above it, for the past 20-years. This resistance zone has been tested numerous...

The declines in the stock market this year, has caused investor pessimism to move a good deal higher, hitting levels last seen at the 2011 lows (see table below) CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE The above table from Sentimentrader.com, looks at indicators reflecting...

CLICK ON CHART TO ENLARGE The above chart looks at the yield on the 30-year bond, from an “inverted” angle. Why invert the bond chart? This way it looks like bond “price.” The 30-year yield (inverted) has peaked along line (A) a couple of times...